Roadmap

The plan for this project was originally announced last March at GDC 2016. The presentation video is here. A PDF of the slides is also available on that page.

Here is a summary of the key points:

Backlog of candidate language features

• Enums
• Bit-fields
• Language Standard Annotations
• References
• Unions
• Function Templates
• Visbility: public, private, protected, friend
• Generic resource addressing

Stretch language features

• constexpr
• Assertions
• Function pointers (limited)
• Lambdas (limited)
• Virtuals
• Constructors, destructors, etc.
• Extern functions (linking)

Out-of-scope language features

• Exceptions
• A stack
• Recursion
• STL Containers
• C99/stdlib compatibility
• Garbage collection

Candidate hardware features

• Explicit float16/half type
• Blender intrinsics
• More atomic operations
• Stereo system values (SV_XXXX)
• Programmable blending (aka RT Read)
• Input of arbitrary structures
• More control over IEEE behavior
• Future GPU features